Sbopkg...
 

Hi Forum

Does the sbopkg tool keeps track of packages that I have installed w/ src2pkg...? installpkg'added packages...?

If not, which tool performs this... ? One may forget something is already instaled... and install another version over it...

BRGDS

Alex

there's no such tool: you have to look in /var/log/packages
everything you install from package is logged there.
if you copy something manually around or if you do the "./configure; make; make install" thing these won't be logged.

Sbopkg is a fantastic tool for installing and updating packages from SlackBuilds.org.

This will generate a file "addedpkgs.txt" listing all none standard Slackware packages (ones you've added):
This will show a list on screen :
Run them as root. Be careful when running the second one - be sure to hit cancel.

As far as I'm aware sbopkg looks for "_SBo" as a "repository tag" in package names of packages in /var/log/packages. In effect this will miss your own installed packages if they don't have this tag.

I use my own tag with sbopkg, so I build packages tagged "ponce" and sbopkg recognize that tag for upgrades,lists,etc.
I have added the line
in /etc/sbopkg/sbopkg.conf and edited /usr/sbin/sbopkg substituting this line (978 in the latest version)
with
no way to set it in conf because it's unset in sbopkg script before being set to that value.

You can always just run pkgtool and choose to view the files in a package which will show you a list of all packages installed. I use a ROX AppDir which I came up with which offers a few functions like a quick listing of the packages(ls -1 /var/log/packages), a dialog for searching for which package installs a ceratin file, or a function which searches for a file in the MANIFEST listing of all the available packages (since I only install about 25% or less of the available ones). Just dropping a package on the AppDir installs it, or just clicking the icon runs the normal pktool.

@poncez: Thanks for that idea - it's quite a good one. I briefly looked through the sbopkg script to see that REPO_TAG information but didn't think of customizing that code to suit :doh: - good thinking.

glad you liked it, remember only to reedit when you upgrade sbopkg ;)

Or better yet, file this as a feature request. :-)

Hi, Chess, and thanks for replying. I have been having a look at the Google Code project for Sbopkg and the Sbopkg home page but can't find a place to submit such a request. Apologies if I'm being dumb and missing something obvious! What's the preferred way of doing this ?

Allrighty ppl,

So I have installed sbopkg, it is now syncing after having created all those dirs,..

Since I have a Slackware64 13, I have to change the arch in all the slackbuilds I have used... so... If I use sbopkg to Install/update anything, will it handle this arch thing automatically for me, or will I still have to nano...*.SlackBuild to change ARCH to x86_64...?

BRGDS

Alex

nope. edit yourself.

no no no...am sorry...thats not my answer, i was having internet connection problems and could not edit properly. here is the full post: am terribly sorry :(

sbopkg is a great tool imho.

Alexvader

ARCH is set automatically according to your architecture afaik.

'upgradepkg --install-new PACKAGENAME' command makes sure that package gets upgraded when there's another version of it already installed. When there's no other version of the software installed it installs new package.

For keeping an eye on /var/log/packages i use 'qtgsmanager' which is third party unsupported gui frontend for pkgtools, but has nice featureset and does not have to be run as root for basic operations.